NAVY LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23396, 1 August 1941, Page 2

NAVY LEAGUE

—-♦ TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL GLENNIE

REPORT ON WORK OF SEA CADET CORPS

A decision to send a letter of appreciation to Rear-Admiral I. G. Glennie “for his magnificent work in smashing the German sea-borne troops attempting to make landings, from the sea on Crete,” was made at last evening’s meeting of the executive of the Navy League. Members said they felt it was rather a coincidence that such signal assistance should -have been given the New Zealand troops defending Crete by a section of the Royal Navy, under the command of the (former captain of H.M.S. Achilles. Approval of the Christchurch branch as New Zealand headquarters was received from other branches in the Dominion, and the Navy Office, Wellington, wrote acknowledging the draft rules and regulations for sea cadet corps. These will be considered by the Naval Board. Gratification was expressed at the reading of an extract from the officer commanding a naval training establishment in England, commending the fine type of young men being selected for naval appointments in England. Of 160 passing through the courses, so for not one had been paraded as a defaulter. It was reported that at the annual meeting of the Navy League’s War Council in Wellington, Mr T. M. Charters, the president of the Christchurch branch, was elected chairman for the current year. A report on the Sea Cadet Corps, by Lieutenant-Commander Hugh Anderson, R.N. (retired), who is officer commanding the corps, said that Its strength was now three officers, one honorary instructor, and 74 cadets. Small arms drill, field exercises (in which the cadets had facilities to use port war signal station equipment) and parades held by the corps were described. In June Commodore W. E. Parry inspected' the corps, and was impressed by the general standard of smartness of the boys and their bearing and was interested in the wire splicing and signalling instructions being'given.